Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK

  • Alan.B - Monday, June 6, 2016 9:59 PM

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    I've a hunch (untested) that you can squeeze even more performance out of the non-partitioned case.  Instead of count(*), which is normally O(n), look up the row counts in sys.partitions, which is an O(1) operation.  I suspect that the actual value of count(*) at the moment you run the query doesn't matter for this application.  If the table is a busy one, with lots of inserts and/or deletes happening, count(*) may not be any more accurate either.

    Of course, if your table is partitioned (not the query) and the table partitioning matches that of your query, even better!

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